Miui Droid X
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Our X1 bootloader has been unlocked by numerous sources. It's all up to the wondrous dev's behind the awesome MIUI to get crack-a-lackin on it. I am in line with the rest of the MIUI fans, eagerly awaiting.
If you are referring to work by cvpcs, the bootloader has not been unlocked. He is only building cyanogen around the moto kernel. What I would like to know, is whether using the moto kernel really affects custom roms in comparison to custom kernels.
As i have known, the bootloader is NOT unlocked. P3Droid also stated that even though dev-droidx's have unlocked bootloaders, it isn't possible to use those files to unlock consumer devices.
I don't think it affects them negatively at all. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT for locked bootloaders at all, I don't think any device that we pay for should be restricted in any way, but there are A LOT of great ROMs for the Droid X & Droid 2 using the Motorola kernels (both Froyo & Gingerbread) just as good if not better than the ROMs that use a custom kernel.
It always cracks me up when I hear people talk about ROMs like CyanogenMod or MIUI are it. I'm not saying they aren't great ROMs, because they are, but they are far from the only great ROMs that there are.
Well my bad, I was on the wrong thought path. I thought I had learned that once we were able to root any new updates(when they started rolling last month) to GB, that the bootloader would be unlocked that way we could get just about anything on it, ROMs, file types, rom updates and kernel updates. Thanks for the lesson.
No problem!
Does anybody know exactly what difference the moto kernel makes? The software drivers affect how software and hardware acts, the hardware affects performance. What difference does only the kernel do? It can't be that great can it? Its just more work to build a rom around a existing kernel. There shouldn't be any feature differences, speed differences, and hardware differences. Correct me if I am wrong.
No problem!
Does anybody know exactly what difference the moto kernel makes? The software drivers affect how software and hardware acts, the hardware affects performance. What difference does only the kernel do? It can't be that great can it? Its just more work to build a rom around a existing kernel. There shouldn't be any feature differences, speed differences, and hardware differences. Correct me if I am wrong.
There's a lot of room that can be gained by custom kernels. Being able to build and install a custom kernel could allow the Droid X to live well beyond it's EOL date. That's what happened with the Droid. It's a two year old phone with a 600MHz processor that can be overclocked to over 1.2GHz and can fluidly run the very latest Android builds.
We don't know what could be gained on the X with a custom kernel. We may never know what the phone is truly capable of and that's what has a lot of us upset. We are capped to an extent with the kernel and we won't get the opportunity to see what's beyond that cap unless the bootloader is unlocked.
Agreed, and guaranteed the only thing that is driving that decision is money. If we have an unlocked phone that we can add the latest and greatest to (Ice Cream Sandwich at the end of the year anyone?) Then what's the incentive for us to buy one of the four billion new phones for another couple hundred dollars coming out in the next week, month, year? I can understand it from a business point of view, but it's a shame that we're so crippled by it.
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